Nightshade.2570

Wow I mean wow! The first thing I said is this is amazing, the amount of info you shared with us was wow. I really appreciate this background look. I immediately consulted friends that worked in similar fields and passed this along. Why? Because what you learned in this episode will probably help them similarly. Thankyou for putting such time and passion into this! What a refreshing change and great amount of Knowledge. I laughed so hard when the root cause was *drivers* ahhahahahahha.

Im afraid I dont think, we have the population anymore for so many maps. The only way this would work is if could draw in the PVE'ers which Vet WvWers constantly discourage from playing period, even if that is the way to get new WvW populations going.

I think people will avoid your shades.

To be honest, as a long term WVW player, and after the disheartening announcement the other day, running a bunch more nerfs across players favorite classes specifically aimed at wvw comp changes is going to do little for the morale of wvw players. There is little in these balance changes that would in fact excite anyone, and very likely will just convince players to move on from the game vs. Try something new. Ussually I embrace balance patch changes with enthusiasm hoping that something fun and new will come my way and in general they ussually spawn the fun of coming up with new builds and armor changes. What is proposed here fills me with a growing sense of worry as they hold little in them that would attract people to try something new or even continue on. In a game mode with a shaky at best future.

So to be clear, I see on your picture they are hitting 10 targets for 2-3k each, for a total of 20-30k damage total across 10 targets. So with that in mind, it is okay for a rev to hit 5 targets for 10-15k a piece (it actually sometimes straight up downs people) then rather have the damage spread out across more targets. Okay well I am okay with this then, please remove the scourges ability to damage pulsing from itself, and double the damage that it does to five targets. I think that is quite reasonable. I will take it, as a scourge main I am find with standing out of melee and doing double damage. Im still not even going to do as much damage as rev, but its definitely preferable for a light class to stay out of Melee, and hence in wvw the pirate ship meta is once more reborn.

Could you do a livestream AMA regarding WvW commanding? Much appreciated. so many questions, so little time. Hiya, your welcome to hit me up in game and I can answer any questions you have. :)

So, As a WvW Vet and a Commander on and off over the years, let me just say this.I first off lead a group that accepts everyone. This is because we are a group of many many groups made up into one. We run later at night so it is imperative to condense numbers of players to fight off the large groups we are often hit with. However, we are fun oriented, not a serious group and mostly looking to hold things for the server and take things for them. A serious group would need to dedicate itself to WvW metaclasses, as that is what they will end up fighting against. It's not so much that theirs an open squad space I should be in it, its more like adding you to the squad will be viewed (this is not my personal opinion just a general belief out there) as weakening it against other squads that are using the particular skills needed to fight each other. Classes with large amounts of area damage, good healing support are what every squad is going to generally lean towards and unfortunately Rangers/soulbeasts have been more of a roaming class (small scale fights, single player damage oriented) for a long time now. The Soulbeast was close to getting into squads with stances but then things just changed and it just didn't become viable compared to other classes that could do everything better in large scale fights. I am sorry your struggling with this side of WvW you are a valuable resource to the game regardless of what you play. New players or long term that stick around are what is needed to keep the flow of the game. Some servers are widely known for a very elitist mentality and my only suggestion here is to, find a commander that is more open to all classes to follow or look for a server with a different attitude about things where there maybe more commanders willing to snap you up.

We did not have to pay for the new mount. It was free. After POF was launched any new mounts we are given for free are pretty nice icing on the cake. So I approve of them being sensible when it comes to time and resources. WvW got an influx of people that it badly needed. People I am sure bought the new skins for this mount,(though many did not as well) which gives me hope that they will develop in this area (WvW)further in the future.

Um sorry going to be the voice of reason here, people complained about gliding to and its not that big of deal. When wvw didnt get mounts after POF was released people were really upset. Now we are getting something that MIGHT REINVIGORATE the game mode. Really reconsider this post and what you are saying. I am happy for anything that gets my friends to log in and have fun.

Finally! We asked for this during the Adopt-a-Dev program and I know it was put off at that time! Just a note-your going to get lots of the Server leaders on here freaking out. Let them. Do what is best for the majority of players so that WvW will be reinvigorated. Friendships and comraderie are easy to maintain if you truly wish it. I have friends from across different servers and I always will. This just gives us a chance at a better rotation. Sometimes the rotation will be a win and other times it will shake up your life.

Your both so sexy ;)

Hi, Aggie here, oddly strangely my guild (BOM) came up with the name Steve on their own for him the first year of Lab. We were running around and he popped up everywhere I went so they started caling him My Ex-Boyfriend Steve (it was a joke don't have an Ex named that). It stuck and we have perpetuated his name every year. Our posts date back about it on these boards. We are often commanding every night of the Lab during the busiest hours and so it widespread out to other groups. So I don't know who was first but,think that confirms his name is Steve. Also, I like John for Tequatl.